Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank. Can cold calling compete in the age of AI?
Cold Calling vs. Social Selling: Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier
As AI revolutionises the sales landscape, the debate is heating up. Is cold calling a relic of the past, or does it still have a place in a world dominated by social selling and automation?
Join us for a high-octane discussion on Cold Calling vs. Social Selling:
Navigating the AI-Powered Sales Frontier, featuring Alex, his sons Jordan and Jensen—both deep in the trenches of today’s sales world—and special guest Richard Blank, Cold Calling expert.
Here’s what we’re asking:
Can cold calling really hold its own in the age of AI?
Is the human touch still essential, or can automation replace it in B2B deals?
How can AI enhance the selling process without losing that personal connection?
You’ll hear Richard make a compelling case for why cold calling is far from dead, while Alex challenges its relevance in today’s tech-driven landscape.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
Expect a lively debate with actionable strategies for sales and customer success teams navigating this rapidly changing frontier.
Want to future-proof your sales tactics? Don’t miss out. Tune in to challenge your assumptions and walk away with practical insights to up your game.
Creating conversations with your target audience is easier said than done, these days!
Alex and his Sons, Jordan and Jensen share their experience in sales, marketing and customers success.
We aim to share practical tips to help our listeners walk digital corridors effectively and create conversations with their target audience!Our mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by empowering our audience to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience. We just happen to be pretty good at it ourselves and want to share our approach with you!
Almost four years ago my son, Jordan, Jensen and I were banging our heads against a brick wall trying to make our clients successful at developing pipeline, something every business we spoke to was struggling with in one form or another, whether it's size, quality or progression. So we tested every approach known. And we're still testing!
In the last two years we have refined our approach and now share this with others who want to leverage social media to build meaningful relationships that scale over time.
The results:
- Call rates have improved by 30x
- Territory penetration has increased by 15x
- 34% of calls progress with a meaningful next step agreed
- Clients (on average) generate calls with 10.2% of their target audience
- The number of stakeholders engaged in each active account increased by 6.4x
Each week, Alex, Jordan and Jensen share real life examples of what’s working and what’s not, we aim to give you practical tips you can try today after each episode - we hope you enjoy our podcast, we welcome questions and new topics to discuss so please engage with us on socials or drop us a note.
e Hosts
Jordan Abbott (a.k.a. The Sales Poet)
Jordan is a seasoned sales development rep, a regular podcaster, and on the Board of the Emerging Professionals Network, a membership body part of the Institute of Sales Professionals designed to encourage young people into the sales profession. In his spare time he's known as the Sales Poet and enjoys spending time with his partner and two pooches.
Alex Abbott (a.k.a. Bearded Sales Guy)
Founder, CEO
My mission is to bring positive mental health back to sales by making sales fun again. Solving the one problem that feeds all others in sales, a lack of pipeline. Through our podcast I aim to empower the community to create a predictable flow of commercial conversations with their target audience, to grow their business.
After almost 4 years of testing I've found a method that works and want to share it with you.
My Wife and I run another community called She Loves Social which is aimed at empowering women with new digital sales skills to help them re-enter the workplace walking digital corridors safely and effectively.
Jensen Abbott
Business Development Manager & Co-host
Jensen started his career as an apprentice stone mason spending most of his days fitting precious stone into kitchens and by night hitting the gym preparing himself for competition. Today, he is part of the Walking Digital Corridors team putting his new found digital relationship building into practice. Being the youngest on the team it’s lovely to hear of his successes developing relationships with his target audience as a BDR.
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Jensen Abbott, Alex Abbott , Jordan Abbott, Walking Digital Corridors podcast, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#JensenAbbott #Jensen Abbott #AlexAbbott #JordanAbbott #WalkingDigitalCorridorspodcast #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
Can cold calling compete in the age of AI? Walking Digital Corridors podcast guest Richard Blank.
https://youtu.be/XFryzr3u8BY
https://youtu.be/GVBcY01FZJ0
https://youtu.be/ahHy7Bmla6Y
https://youtu.be/Pilw4jzlvK4
https://youtu.be/rA9T9uxrw1E
https://youtu.be/ouYrRdZig-I
https://youtu.be/okWfRxEoD9M
Victim to Victory Podcast Series Interview. Dare to be a dreamer with loyal INXS fan Richard Blank.
Victim to Victory Podcast Series Interview
At Victim to Victory, we share inspiring stories of individuals who have transformed their lives by overcoming incredible obstacles. Our channel is dedicated to showcasing real-life experiences of resilience, determination, and triumph. Whether it's beating the odds, rising above challenges, or finding light in the darkest times, these stories are here to motivate and uplift you.
Join our community and discover the power of perseverance. Let these amazing tales encourage you to conquer your own challenges and achieve your dreams.
Richard Blank's story has a lot of twists and turns. He calls Costa Rica home now as a thriving Entrepreneur. His story is one about coming of age, knowing that dreamers sometimes feel alone, taking a leap of faith to move to a different country and all the challenges & splendors that come with that.
https://youtu.be/a8Xbz25r4fQ?si=i8D2DEujHHTgQfMS
00:00 Intro
01:48 Richard's Story
19:19 Motivating in Costa Rica
23:33 How Richard sees life
34:30 Giving back to community
46:19 Sharing life wisdoms
48:58 Outro
Tracey Cook is a Global Podcast Creator & Brand Storytelling Strategist & CEO of Brand Your Story Academy. Tracey helps online business owners launch, brand & market their Podcast for Passion, Purpose & Profit. Tracey is an Amazon No 1 Best Selling Author & a sought after speaker & trainer, that has been featured with Les Brown, Dr Joe Vitale and Pat Quinn. Tracey’s (TC) mission is to encourage people to share their stories for deeper authentic connections to make the world a better place.
PODCAST LAUNCH STRATEGIST AT THE PODCAST EMPIRE
I mentor Purpose Driven Women in Business to launch a Profitable Podcast to build their Brand & Influence and generate leads to their business offers
PODCAST MASTERY FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS PROGRAM
Step into the world of podcasting with confidence by joining our self-paced Podcast Mastery program, designed specifically for women entrepreneurs. This proven 5-step framework delivers video modules on launching, branding, marketing, and monetizing your podcast. Harness the power of both audio and video podcasts that drives business growth, amplifies your brand and influence, expands your reach, and converts listeners into loyal clients.
PODCAST VISION SESSION
Book a call to learn more about starting a podcast is a great way for a woman business owner to establish herself as a thought leader in her industry, gain visibility, attract new clients and customers, and ultimately expand her reach and grow her business, despite any fears she may have about the technical aspects, lack of audience or not having enough interesting content to talk about.
MASTERCLASS WITH TRACEY COOK
If you have an engaged community, membership or team you feel would benefit from a Complimentary Power of Podcasting Masterclass please book a Collaboration Call with Tracey Cook
Meet Tracey
Tracey launched her first Podcast in 2020. After 300 episodes, downloads in the thousands, a best-selling book and creating a Podcast Movement, Tracey has cracked the code for Video Podcast & Content Creation to amplify your Brand.
She is leveraging the power of Video Podcast & Social Media repurpose strategies to help Female Business Owners to launch a Profitable Podcast, even with zero experience or audience inside her Signature Podcast Launch Strategy Mastermind
Now it’s your turn to Launch!
Tracey Cook is a high energy, unique and engaging Speaker. Tracey tells stories to inspire and create transformations. She gives the audience the direction into transformation, to find their purpose, their voice and compel action. Tracey’s passion to create a world of love and empathy through our stories, has a growing community following her from Victim to Victory to Victorious.
Tracey is available at a variety of events (virtually and in person) and is based in Perth Western Australia.
Whether you want Tracey to speak on your stage or strategize about how to explode your business with the Power of Podcast, Tracey is happy to learn more about your event & welcomes you to book a call
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Victim to Victory Podcast, Tracey Cook, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#VictimtoVictoryPodcast #TraceyCook #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
"Dreamers sometimes feel alone" V2V Interview featuring Richard Blank
https://youtu.be/a8Xbz25r4fQ?si=i8D2DEujHHTgQfMS
Victim to Victory Podcast Series Interview. Dare to be a dreamer with loyal INXS fan Richard Blank.
Victim to Victory Podcast Series Interview
At Victim to Victory, we share inspiring stories of individuals who have transformed their lives by overcoming incredible obstacles. Our channel is dedicated to showcasing real-life experiences of resilience, determination, and triumph. Whether it's beating the odds, rising above challenges, or finding light in the darkest times, these stories are here to motivate and uplift you.
Join our community and discover the power of perseverance. Let these amazing tales encourage you to conquer your own challenges and achieve your dreams.
Richard Blank's story has a lot of twists and turns. He calls Costa Rica home now as a thriving Entrepreneur. His story is one about coming of age, knowing that dreamers sometimes feel alone, taking a leap of faith to move to a different country and all the challenges & splendors that come with that.
https://youtu.be/a8Xbz25r4fQ?si=i8D2DEujHHTgQfMS
00:00 Intro
01:48 Richard's Story
19:19 Motivating in Costa Rica
23:33 How Richard sees life
34:30 Giving back to community
46:19 Sharing life wisdoms
48:58 Outro
Tracey Cook is a Global Podcast Creator & Brand Storytelling Strategist & CEO of Brand Your Story Academy. Tracey helps online business owners launch, brand & market their Podcast for Passion, Purpose & Profit. Tracey is an Amazon No 1 Best Selling Author & a sought after speaker & trainer, that has been featured with Les Brown, Dr Joe Vitale and Pat Quinn. Tracey’s (TC) mission is to encourage people to share their stories for deeper authentic connections to make the world a better place.
PODCAST LAUNCH STRATEGIST AT THE PODCAST EMPIRE
I mentor Purpose Driven Women in Business to launch a Profitable Podcast to build their Brand & Influence and generate leads to their business offers
PODCAST MASTERY FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS PROGRAM
Step into the world of podcasting with confidence by joining our self-paced Podcast Mastery program, designed specifically for women entrepreneurs. This proven 5-step framework delivers video modules on launching, branding, marketing, and monetizing your podcast. Harness the power of both audio and video podcasts that drives business growth, amplifies your brand and influence, expands your reach, and converts listeners into loyal clients.
PODCAST VISION SESSION
Book a call to learn more about starting a podcast is a great way for a woman business owner to establish herself as a thought leader in her industry, gain visibility, attract new clients and customers, and ultimately expand her reach and grow her business, despite any fears she may have about the technical aspects, lack of audience or not having enough interesting content to talk about.
MASTERCLASS WITH TRACEY COOK
If you have an engaged community, membership or team you feel would benefit from a Complimentary Power of Podcasting Masterclass please book a Collaboration Call with Tracey Cook
Meet Tracey
Tracey launched her first Podcast in 2020. After 300 episodes, downloads in the thousands, a best-selling book and creating a Podcast Movement, Tracey has cracked the code for Video Podcast & Content Creation to amplify your Brand.
She is leveraging the power of Video Podcast & Social Media repurpose strategies to help Female Business Owners to launch a Profitable Podcast, even with zero experience or audience inside her Signature Podcast Launch Strategy Mastermind
Now it’s your turn to Launch!
Tracey Cook is a high energy, unique and engaging Speaker. Tracey tells stories to inspire and create transformations. She gives the audience the direction into transformation, to find their purpose, their voice and compel action. Tracey’s passion to create a world of love and empathy through our stories, has a growing community following her from Victim to Victory to Victorious.
Tracey is available at a variety of events (virtually and in person) and is based in Perth Western Australia.
Whether you want Tracey to speak on your stage or strategize about how to explode your business with the Power of Podcast, Tracey is happy to learn more about your event & welcomes you to book a call
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Victim to Victory Podcast, Tracey Cook, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
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"Dreamers sometimes feel alone" V2V Interview featuring Richard Blank
https://youtu.be/a8Xbz25r4fQ?si=i8D2DEujHHTgQfMS
Victim to Victory Podcast Series Interview. Dare to be a dreamer with loyal INXS fan Richard Blank.
Victim to Victory Podcast Series Interview
At Victim to Victory, we share inspiring stories of individuals who have transformed their lives by overcoming incredible obstacles. Our channel is dedicated to showcasing real-life experiences of resilience, determination, and triumph. Whether it's beating the odds, rising above challenges, or finding light in the darkest times, these stories are here to motivate and uplift you.
Join our community and discover the power of perseverance. Let these amazing tales encourage you to conquer your own challenges and achieve your dreams.
Richard Blank's story has a lot of twists and turns. He calls Costa Rica home now as a thriving Entrepreneur. His story is one about coming of age, knowing that dreamers sometimes feel alone, taking a leap of faith to move to a different country and all the challenges & splendors that come with that.
https://youtu.be/a8Xbz25r4fQ?si=i8D2DEujHHTgQfMS
00:00 Intro
01:48 Richard's Story
19:19 Motivating in Costa Rica
23:33 How Richard sees life
34:30 Giving back to community
46:19 Sharing life wisdoms
48:58 Outro
Tracey Cook is a Global Podcast Creator & Brand Storytelling Strategist & CEO of Brand Your Story Academy. Tracey helps online business owners launch, brand & market their Podcast for Passion, Purpose & Profit. Tracey is an Amazon No 1 Best Selling Author & a sought after speaker & trainer, that has been featured with Les Brown, Dr Joe Vitale and Pat Quinn. Tracey’s (TC) mission is to encourage people to share their stories for deeper authentic connections to make the world a better place.
PODCAST LAUNCH STRATEGIST AT THE PODCAST EMPIRE
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PODCAST VISION SESSION
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MASTERCLASS WITH TRACEY COOK
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Meet Tracey
Tracey launched her first Podcast in 2020. After 300 episodes, downloads in the thousands, a best-selling book and creating a Podcast Movement, Tracey has cracked the code for Video Podcast & Content Creation to amplify your Brand.
She is leveraging the power of Video Podcast & Social Media repurpose strategies to help Female Business Owners to launch a Profitable Podcast, even with zero experience or audience inside her Signature Podcast Launch Strategy Mastermind
Now it’s your turn to Launch!
Tracey Cook is a high energy, unique and engaging Speaker. Tracey tells stories to inspire and create transformations. She gives the audience the direction into transformation, to find their purpose, their voice and compel action. Tracey’s passion to create a world of love and empathy through our stories, has a growing community following her from Victim to Victory to Victorious.
Tracey is available at a variety of events (virtually and in person) and is based in Perth Western Australia.
Whether you want Tracey to speak on your stage or strategize about how to explode your business with the Power of Podcast, Tracey is happy to learn more about your event & welcomes you to book a call
Richard’s vision quest journey is filled with twists and turns. At 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers over two decades.
Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.
A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, entered into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business along side other famous alumni. Paying it forward to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.
Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.
https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/
Victim to Victory Podcast, Tracey Cook, Richard Blank, Costa Rica's Call Center, Outsourcing, Telemarketing Call Centre, BPO, Nearshore Contact Center, Sales, Entrepreneur, B2B, Business, Podcast, Gamification,Leadership, Marketing, CX, Guest, Money, B2C education, BPO trainer,
#VictimtoVictoryPodcast #TraceyCook #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #learnpodcasting #podcastepisode #podcastguest #podcasting #podcastinterview #podcastplaylist #podcasts #podcastskills #podcastshow
"Dreamers sometimes feel alone" V2V Interview featuring Richard Blank
https://youtu.be/a8Xbz25r4fQ?si=i8D2DEujHHTgQfMS
